How to Install and Uninstall libnss-tls Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: November 05,2024

1. Install "libnss-tls" package

Learn how to install libnss-tls on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libnss-tls

2. Uninstall "libnss-tls" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libnss-tls on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove libnss-tls $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libnss-tls package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libnss-tls
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.1-1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Source: nss-tls
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Kan-Ru Chen (陳侃如)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 34
Depends: nss-tlsd (>= 1.1), libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/universe/n/nss-tls/libnss-tls_1.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 6148
MD5sum: 96af0e3b502740c13d83e7a8e0d81dfd
SHA1: a344d2c3ae4983c96fa7f3c4e642c486c8cfeab7
SHA256: 56ca2ed9fdf69f5592dc7ab65501a085e9e64f0d6509664ff33b62a8902cf374
SHA512: e0f0522f04c5b4dc111ad8dbd34f2ac8d65d80e7f3346b020d988d364e8855c19c9f79302cc87f32459d12500c13cab62d137f5e434df24f0ebd987cad052123
Homepage: https://github.com/dimkr/nss-tls
Description-en: NSS module for encrypted DNS name resolution
nss-tls is an alternative, encrypted name resolving library to use
with glibc, which uses DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).
.
The glibc name resolver can be configured through nsswitch.conf(5) to
use nss-tls instead of the DNS resolver, or fall back to DNS when
nss-tls fails.
.
This way, all applications that use the standard resolver API
(getaddrinfo(), gethostbyname(), etc'), are transparently migrated
from DNS to encrypted means of name resolving, with zero
application-side changes and minimal resource consumption footprint.
However, nss-tls does not deal with applications that use their own,
built-in DNS resolver.
.
This package contains the NSS module, a tiny client library, which
delegates the resolving work to nss-tlsd through the Unix socket and
passes the results back to the application, without dependencies
other than libc.
Description-md5: 53a26ccf679046df5105562f66adab20